October 13, 2006, Friday

The director David Leveaux describes Tom Stoppard's comedy ''Jumpers'' as a play about ''philosophy and bottoms.'' It was the latter that caused much of the fuss over the original 1972 London production. The bottom in question was that of Diana...

April 9, 2004, Friday

If you were going to be an oldish lady in 1920's Britain, you might want to be Diana Rigg as Adela Bradley in ''The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries.'' You'd want her milliner and her dressmaker, for one thing. (Some women say they watch ''Sex and the City''...

July 11, 2003, Friday

LET'S hear it for the ladies. Starting tonight and continuing through late September -- a period designated the ''Summer of 'Mystery!''' by PBS --those conniving killers, canny-old-granny sleuths and brash young cops will be out in force, seducing...

With her headmistress mien and plummy Queen's English, Dame Diana Rigg has served as the pitch-perfect host of PBS's ''Mystery'' series for the last decade. No one, however, would accuse this British star of putting herself on the shelf. Not with a...

November 7, 1999, Sunday

THE cover of the program for ''Far East,'' A. R. Gurney's dark comedy now at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, promises something on the order of ''Madama Butterfly'': a United States Navy officer in his dress whites stands against...